Class mate! Love the concept only most 60's radios i find are usually plundered for parts.. my first guitar amplifier in the seventies was an old Philips B5X61A-02 tube radio in a huge mahogany cabinet. Had a EM80 indicator tube an EL84 and a UL41 in the power amplifier.. too cool amp. Professionally reworked into a guitar ready amp by a student of the local electronics engineering school.
Just found your channel Joe, love these videos. I’ve built a few of these little Robert’s radio ruby amps now they’re great. by far my favourite one was a slightly larger Robert’s radio in which I also fitted a Timmy clone and a keeley mag delay. Also fitted a rechargeable battery bank with hours of play time. Give it a try!
@danbrennan2727 Thank you so much for the kind words, it's great to have you along for the ride. It's funny you say that mate, I have been contemplating this very thing! I wad thinking delay and reverb would go well. What rechargeable power supply did you go for in the end?
I'm 90 seconds in and laughing my ass off at the smd opamp. Love that you're trying to use it. Also Mark from tagboard would be a billionaire if he got £1 for everytime we all used his layouts. 🤣
@jonnywassober7008 Ha ha ha I love that I messed up the Opamps 🤣 I couldn't believe it! Absolutely mate he has done a fantastic service to our community for sure.
I clicked on the wrong order number and got the SMD 386. I make them on Veroboard.. With the pot between the cap and pin 1. I started making them when I was teaching at Hugh Baird College in Bootle. I was the physics and engineering lecturer.
Are LM386 and LM358 compatible or rather, could they possibly perform the same function in this sort of realm? (guitar effects, etc) That trick with the battery on the speaker was top-notch! Very cool man.
@codelicious6590 I'm going to give the opamp suggested in the recebt comments a go but, here's what Google says about them. The LM386 and LM385 are both audio amplifier chips with different characteristics: LM386: This audio amplifier chip has a low noise and distortion circuit design, and is small in size. It has a default gain of 20x, which can be adjusted by connecting capacitors. The LM386 is suitable for portable battery-powered guitar mini amplifiers. LM385: This is a micropower two-terminal bandgap voltage regulator diode. It has a wide current range of 10 µA to 20 mA, low noise, and stable operation over time and temperature
Yeah, the first time I put a pot into an enclosure I drille for the little locator tab.......that was the last time and Ive never looked back. Haha Ive done a massive TWO whole pedals too! I want to build my own amp so badly I have fantasies of using old tubes out of radios to make my own small amp.
@danottley2627 Thanks mate. Me too ha ha. I have a few of them left, and I haven't given up on them just yet. I just got really annoyed with straining to see the legs ha.
The first amp I built from the ruby schematics was mounted in a wooden box that I had made for a craft gallery that didn’t meet my quality standards for that purpose but was the exact right size for a vintage speaker that I wanted to use, the most recent one I built into a detachable speaker from an old Sony boombox and have been using it as a test amp when I don’t want to fire up the big rigs. There is also a really cool variation on this design from Beavis Audio Research called the Noisy Cricket that adds a tone control and a dirt switch to simulate an overdriven tube amp. These are fun little projects that actually have a lot of uses, and can be mounted in some wild ways!! 👍🤙🖖
Great build.... though not for the faint of heart like me. Sounds amazing with the range master. I am inspired to be plugging my new kossoff drive into a Fender Tre-Verb stereo pedal and out to 2 Fender Champion 600 5 watt combo's and cause a rumble in the dumble.😜😎🎸🇬🇧
@nodrog5150 Thank you mate I really appreciate that. I bet that's going to sound killer! I would absolutely love to hear it. You sure your not going to have a go at one of these amps?
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial I'm all fingers and thumbs Joe and I get flustered quickly so it's not for me. I'm always threatening to do a blend circuit with my 2 Strats as I think the volume and 2 tone set up is a bit outdated. A blend knob between 2 or 3 pickups seems a more practical way to go. My whole problem is the soldering iron. I've never found one that holds it's heat in between solders and I hate when it's just not doing the job precisely. I suppose that comes down to the quality of the iron. I have 2 irons, one is a gas powered one that I tried and it actually worked. The other one has the LED temperature window built into the body. That one I haven't tried.🤔 I must get my finger out and mod those 3 pickups circuits😜
Can teach me how to build.. I already buy just part of guitar n mic input via lazada n supplier just give wire red n black with socket and no manual n if have i maybe can do diy... Thanks Your Fans From Penang Malaysia
@mik99D Firstly thank you for watching the video. Listen mate, I've served over 22 years at sea (still serve actually) in the Royal Navy working on this style equipment. Do you really think I can't tell the difference between AC and DC? Come on now ha ha. I find it easy to refer to the negative reference as earth, it helps mu mind as we draw earth symbols on a schematic for this.
"Earth" tends to be used in mains powered equipment where there is an actual connection to Planet Earth provided by the power cable. However it isn't a fixed rule. "Earth" is often used to mean a point of zero potential, as in Virtual Earth in op amp circuits, but so is "Ground". The meaning is usually obvious from the context.
@wilhelmvonn9619 That's my understanding too mate. It's hard for me to gauge as all of my engineering experience has been from military life, it doesn't always transfer over especially when terminology is involved.
@jeremiahlyleseditor437 It really depends on your speaker mate. Here's a list of some common values. 4 Ohm Speaker: ~50 Watts 8 Ohm Speaker: ~25 Watts 16 Ohm Speaker: ~12.5 Watts
Very nice! I've actually got some pcb's from five cats pedals to build including the Ruby Amp. I'm going to build my Ruby amp in a retro style radio biscuit tin. I'm a newbie to this, so hopefully I won't mess it up!
@williamjenkins9423 I absolutely LOVE the Five Cats Pedals kits. I bet your Ruby amp is going to be killer mate. Did you see the Tremolo Mod I did with one of his kits? I really enjoyed that video.
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial hi mate, thanks for your reply. I hope it will be killer! I haven't seen your mod video yet, but will look at it soon. The other boards I got from five cats are:- Axis Fuzz, Solar 108, Scorpion Boost, Duck Duck, Violtear, Dunder Dirt Cheap and Deep Down. I've almost got all the components for everything!
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial I can't wait to start building them! I'm just short of some resistors, ceramic capacitors, electrolytic capacitors, and some dc jacks (I think, if I remember rightly)
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial Despite your expert demo and explanation, I am still more likely to burn down my house than end up with anything resembling an amp due to my immense kack-handedness with anything electrical! Love the vids though mate👍
I have just followed a schematic. Are you saying the td7052a is a higher spec like for like? When it comes to rangemasters I could talk for hours. Why on earth you would limit yourself to just one type is insanity to me? Add a switch and have more flavours. Have you watched my rangemaster build video? I'll see your Mullard 850 and raise you any of the following: NKT12, NKT678, GEC 4JX1D765, Texas Instruments 2n4062 etc I could keep listing for hours.
This is a TH-cam video making masterclass, I'm so impressed with your work gent
Thank you mate. I genuinely love making these videos and I have so many other ideas too.
Need patreon only vids with the swearing
Ha ha that's a great idea mate.
Class mate! Love the concept only most 60's radios i find are usually plundered for parts.. my first guitar amplifier in the seventies was an old Philips B5X61A-02 tube radio in a huge mahogany cabinet. Had a EM80 indicator tube an EL84 and a UL41 in the power amplifier.. too cool amp. Professionally reworked into a guitar ready amp by a student of the local electronics engineering school.
@theonetruehellolaf Wow that sound epic! What happened to it?
I bet it would be worth a bomb now!
Thank you for the kind words mate.
Awesome!!! Didn’t Markus at Reeves have a petrol can amp that was similar ?
Absolutely mate, it's the same circuit. It was this build that got me and Markus talking about it last week. His sounds absolutely fantastic.
I've a couple of fuzz pedals that have turned themselves into AM radios.
@@CrazedFandango 🤣 Love it mate. They are the good ones
Can you get Radio 1? 😅😮😅😮😅😮
@@AlexHall-m4r Thankfully not!
Just found your channel Joe, love these videos.
I’ve built a few of these little Robert’s radio ruby amps now they’re great.
by far my favourite one was a slightly larger Robert’s radio in which I also fitted a Timmy clone and a keeley mag delay.
Also fitted a rechargeable battery bank with hours of play time.
Give it a try!
@danbrennan2727 Thank you so much for the kind words, it's great to have you along for the ride.
It's funny you say that mate, I have been contemplating this very thing! I wad thinking delay and reverb would go well. What rechargeable power supply did you go for in the end?
Why pink for d faceplate?
The op amp 😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Hello mate. I really like shell pink ha ha
I'm 90 seconds in and laughing my ass off at the smd opamp. Love that you're trying to use it.
Also Mark from tagboard would be a billionaire if he got £1 for everytime we all used his layouts. 🤣
@jonnywassober7008 Ha ha ha I love that I messed up the Opamps 🤣 I couldn't believe it!
Absolutely mate he has done a fantastic service to our community for sure.
Also the extensions on the sockets is a great idea Joe.
@jonnywassober7008 Cheers mate. It's the only way I could think of to fit them securely.
Ha ha ha ha that tiny little chip is great
Ha thank you mate.
I clicked on the wrong order number and got the SMD 386. I make them on Veroboard.. With the pot between the cap and pin 1. I started making them when I was teaching at Hugh Baird College in Bootle. I was the physics and engineering lecturer.
@@mik99D Epic mate. I hadn't realised how awesome this circuit sounds to be fair!
stay safe out there
Cheers mate absolutely
Nice one. Ta!
Cheers mate.
Are LM386 and LM358 compatible or rather, could they possibly perform the same function in this sort of realm? (guitar effects, etc) That trick with the battery on the speaker was top-notch! Very cool man.
@codelicious6590 I'm going to give the opamp suggested in the recebt comments a go but, here's what Google says about them.
The LM386 and LM385 are both audio amplifier chips with different characteristics:
LM386: This audio amplifier chip has a low noise and distortion circuit design, and is small in size. It has a default gain of 20x, which can be adjusted by connecting capacitors. The LM386 is suitable for portable battery-powered guitar mini amplifiers.
LM385: This is a micropower two-terminal bandgap voltage regulator diode. It has a wide current range of 10 µA to 20 mA, low noise, and stable operation over time and temperature
Yeah, the first time I put a pot into an enclosure I drille for the little locator tab.......that was the last time and Ive never looked back. Haha Ive done a massive TWO whole pedals too! I want to build my own amp so badly I have fantasies of using old tubes out of radios to make my own small amp.
That's awesome mate. Building old tube amps is so much fun!
Nice one Joe! Absolute leg-end! For a minute there I thought you were going to get that SMD IC working!
@danottley2627 Thanks mate. Me too ha ha. I have a few of them left, and I haven't given up on them just yet.
I just got really annoyed with straining to see the legs ha.
The first amp I built from the ruby schematics was mounted in a wooden box that I had made for a craft gallery that didn’t meet my quality standards for that purpose but was the exact right size for a vintage speaker that I wanted to use, the most recent one I built into a detachable speaker from an old Sony boombox and have been using it as a test amp when I don’t want to fire up the big rigs. There is also a really cool variation on this design from Beavis Audio Research called the Noisy Cricket that adds a tone control and a dirt switch to simulate an overdriven tube amp. These are fun little projects that actually have a lot of uses, and can be mounted in some wild ways!! 👍🤙🖖
@spacewolf9585 I absolutely first and foremost love your creations and that sony amp you built is so damn cool.
Your an inspiration mate.
@spacewolf9585 you fellas should do this for your pod cast. Episode called "who can build the best ruby"
Fucking love it!! 🔥👌🏻☠️
Thank you mate. This has been a long time coming. Pretty much since our first phone conversation!
Great build.... though not for the faint of heart like me. Sounds amazing with the range master. I am inspired to be plugging my new kossoff drive into a Fender Tre-Verb stereo pedal and out to 2 Fender Champion 600 5 watt combo's and cause a rumble in the dumble.😜😎🎸🇬🇧
@nodrog5150 Thank you mate I really appreciate that.
I bet that's going to sound killer! I would absolutely love to hear it.
You sure your not going to have a go at one of these amps?
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial I'm all fingers and thumbs Joe and I get flustered quickly so it's not for me.
I'm always threatening to do a blend circuit with my 2 Strats as I think the volume and 2 tone set up is a bit outdated. A blend knob between 2 or 3 pickups seems a more practical way to go. My whole problem is the soldering iron. I've never found one that holds it's heat in between solders and I hate when it's just not doing the job precisely. I suppose that comes down to the quality of the iron.
I have 2 irons, one is a gas powered one that I tried and it actually worked. The other one has the LED temperature window built into the body. That one I haven't tried.🤔 I must get my finger out and mod those 3 pickups circuits😜
@@nodrog5150 Ha ha you should have a crack mate it's fun
Ooof. I am gonna need one o these.
@Yellowmusicroom Thank you mate 🙏⚡️This was definitely a fun one
Can teach me how to build.. I already buy just part of guitar n mic input via lazada n supplier just give wire red n black with socket and no manual n if have i maybe can do diy...
Thanks
Your Fans From Penang Malaysia
@papakrailanuarhajiisa Hello mate, thank you for following along. I'm not sure I follow the project mate but I bet it's going to be fun.
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial Thanks bro
@@papakrailanuarhajiisa Any time mate.
"Earth!" is on AC circuits. DC uses -ve voltage or "Ground".
@mik99D Firstly thank you for watching the video.
Listen mate, I've served over 22 years at sea (still serve actually) in the Royal Navy working on this style equipment. Do you really think I can't tell the difference between AC and DC?
Come on now ha ha. I find it easy to refer to the negative reference as earth, it helps mu mind as we draw earth symbols on a schematic for this.
"Earth" tends to be used in mains powered equipment where there is an actual connection to Planet Earth provided by the power cable. However it isn't a fixed rule. "Earth" is often used to mean a point of zero potential, as in Virtual Earth in op amp circuits, but so is "Ground". The meaning is usually obvious from the context.
@wilhelmvonn9619 That's my understanding too mate. It's hard for me to gauge as all of my engineering experience has been from military life, it doesn't always transfer over especially when terminology is involved.
What was that little IC?
@jeremiahlyleseditor437 It really depends on your speaker mate. Here's a list of some common values.
4 Ohm Speaker: ~50 Watts
8 Ohm Speaker: ~25 Watts
16 Ohm Speaker: ~12.5 Watts
cracking video as always mate, its fast becoming part of my weekly routine
@@mattquiney8 Thank you mate thats music to my ears. I absolutely love shooting these videos.
Mine also. It seems like you have been going for a long time now but it is not that long
@@excusemewhileikissthesky1225 It seems like a lifetime ago I started mate.
Very nice! I've actually got some pcb's from five cats pedals to build including the Ruby Amp. I'm going to build my Ruby amp in a retro style radio biscuit tin. I'm a newbie to this, so hopefully I won't mess it up!
@williamjenkins9423 I absolutely LOVE the Five Cats Pedals kits. I bet your Ruby amp is going to be killer mate. Did you see the Tremolo Mod I did with one of his kits? I really enjoyed that video.
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial hi mate, thanks for your reply. I hope it will be killer! I haven't seen your mod video yet, but will look at it soon. The other boards I got from five cats are:- Axis Fuzz, Solar 108, Scorpion Boost, Duck Duck, Violtear, Dunder Dirt Cheap and Deep Down. I've almost got all the components for everything!
@williamjenkins9423 Oh wow you've got loads of them. Nicely done mate. I cant wait to see them.
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial I can't wait to start building them! I'm just short of some resistors, ceramic capacitors, electrolytic capacitors, and some dc jacks (I think, if I remember rightly)
Great video. ANOTHER project for me to do lol
@chriscooks9850 Thank you mate 🙏 I would absolutely love to see/hear what you build and what you use as the speaker/cab
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial will do mate. I'm tempted to do a Christmas Biscuit Barrel version for the festive season :)
@chriscooks9850 There you go mate that's awesome. Also I bet that sounds amazing too. My mate Mike Rivers built one into a pringles tube ha!
Love it mate, sounds amazing!👍
@jdfosho Thank you mate much appreciated. The question is, ate you going to build one?
@@hellosailoreffectsofficial Despite your expert demo and explanation, I am still more likely to burn down my house than end up with anything resembling an amp due to my immense kack-handedness with anything electrical!
Love the vids though mate👍
@jdfosho Ha ha fair play mate. I suppose I would be equally inept at playing guitar like you do so we all have our strengths.
why ANYONE would mess with an lm386 when they make the td7052a chip is beyond me . igonrance is the only reason . my rangemaster uses a mullard 850 .
I have just followed a schematic. Are you saying the td7052a is a higher spec like for like?
When it comes to rangemasters I could talk for hours. Why on earth you would limit yourself to just one type is insanity to me? Add a switch and have more flavours. Have you watched my rangemaster build video?
I'll see your Mullard 850 and raise you any of the following: NKT12, NKT678, GEC 4JX1D765, Texas Instruments 2n4062 etc I could keep listing for hours.